The tell-tale Heart by Edgar
Allan Poe
Characters of the story:
1.The unnamed narrator
- A man who is physically and
mentally ill, a man who can not
differentiate which is ‘real’ and
which is ‘unreal’.
2.The old man
-He has blue eyes and hard to
look at. He is also known the
Madmen in the story, he got
murdered.
3.The neighbor
-He was the one who called the
police because he heard a loud
cry from the old man’s house.
Plot of the story: Lesson learned in the story:
-An unnamed narrator opens the - we should not commit crimes
story by addressing the reader because, in the end, our own
and claiming that he is nervous sense of guilt will expose us.
but not mad. He says that he is
-Do not give your trust easily to
going to tell a story in which he
strangers.
will defend his sanity yet confess
to having killed an old man. A -Do not leave your door unlocked
fear of the man’s pale blue eye is if you know that there is a
the reason of killing. Again, he suspicious person around your
insist that he is not crazy because neighbors.
his measured actions are not
those of a madman. Every night,
he went to the old man’s
chamber. After a week of doing
this, the narrator decides that
the time is right to kill the old
man.